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Setting for many Sholem Aleichem stories
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shtetl
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Shtetlekh (, shtetl (singular), שטעטלעך, shtetlekh (plural)) were small towns with large Jewish populations, which existed in Central and Eastern Europe before the Holocaust . Shtetlekh were mainly found in the areas that constituted the 19th-century Pale ...
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n. A Jewish village or small town, especially one in Eastern Europe.
Usage examples of shtetl.
Michael had diverged - or according to his appalled agnostic father, regressed into a sort of shtetl orthodoxy, while flashing ahead as a mathematician and physicist of extraordinary brilliance.
Shorter than his father, heavy-boned, with a flat Slavic face traceable to shtetl genes, Dov did not need good looks to fascinate a seventeen-year-old.